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RedCastoff wrote:

I am new to the site (due to the Humble sale, thanks so much for putting this together Paizo) and was wondering what normally happens during non-stress situations with the downloads. Does the text "Personalizing... Click link again in 10 seconds to download" change when the download is ready? Also, when I clicked on the download after giving it ~15 min to personalize I was taken back to the homepage for Paizo. Any idea why this happens? Finally, what is supposed to happen when a download goes through? Does it immediately show as a file download in progress or is there another page that opens after the personalization is done? Thanks in advance for any answers, and sorry to dump questions like this.

IT guy here. Yes, it is perfectly possible to prepare for this kind of workload. For example, companies like EA Sports does it every time they get ready to release a new game. They outsource and get enough temporary processing power (in the cloud) to handle the predicted workload.

As much as I'm frustrated by the delays getting these books is it actually reasonable for Paizo to have foreseen this level of demand ?

The closest thing I've seen to this kind of Bundle are the Bundle of Holding deals and to give you some comparison in 2015 the average bundle there sold 701 copies and even their most popular deal (for Monte Cook Game's the Strange) only hit 2203 copies sold over the space of 2 weeks or so.
http://beyondthebundle.com/2016-01-01/2015-review/

Similarly the other book bundle on Humble Bundle (a great set of classic Sci-Fi ebooks if you're interested) has sold a total of 10,453 copies in the space of ~9 days - so a little over a thousand a day.

This bundle on the other hand has sold 32239 copies in less than 48 hours - and is the first bundle I can ever remember seeing where the Beat the Average price is HIGHER that the highest digital product fixed price tier - this is supposed to be the tier that you buy if you want to get *everything* (barring any physical items) but here that's not the case.

So what I'm saying is that, yes, Paizo have a rather serious problem here (mainly because it's not just Humble Bundle buyers who can't access their downloads it's everyone, including people who have paid a great deal more for their products) but it's also a pretty unprecedented event by the standards of previous RPG and Book bundles and I'm not sure anyone expected anything quite like this.

TriOmegaZero wrote:

There is a single code, and Vic has said they will be good for quite awhile. But if you want the physical Beginner's Box, that may not be in stock if you wait too long to redeem.

Source.

Thanks for the quick reply and the source, TOZ!

And thanks to Match_stick for the clarification.

Here comes Santa Claus...

Glad I could be of help :)

There is a single code, and Vic has said they will be good for quite awhile. But if you want the physical Beginner's Box, that may not be in stock if you wait too long to redeem.

To be strictly accurate there's a single code for all the items within a pricing tier - Free, Pay What you Want, Beat the Average, $15, $25

For example I paid $15 while that was greater than the Beat the average price so qualified for the first 4 tiers and consequently got four seperate codes to enter into this site.

Managed to grab a couple more files around 12:00PM GMT but nothing more.

Wonder if someone's occasionally flushing the queue for the watermark server at which point if you are lucky you can get in and grab something before the queue stalls again and becomes useless.

I am curious to know if anyone has been able to download any documents, or if the constant load is causing it to time out for everyone.

I managed to download the Beginners Box and Guild Guide at around 11pm GMT last night but that's all so far.